Yes, one of the solutions recommended was making charcoal for export markets in Europe and South Africa. But that is some pretty nasty work and still very polluting. But one of the problems was consistency in the charcoal output since coming from long distances and different suppliers and different sources of plants even. One firm is doing some of the exporting with some success.
But I agree that the gasification of biomass may be the best option if it proves viable and especially if small facilities can be built up inland to even provide fuels for the communal and commercial farmers. This could also make mechanization of farming more feasible. Rutherfordian ------------------------------ RDRutherford
a country with limited resources and pretty arid countryside that may limit some ability to be extremely hands on.
with that 'level of development' i would have thought hands are what they're bound to depend on. maybe pigs would root them up, maybe they need help with good steel for saws. maybe the sheer ambient temperatures make that kind of hard work suicidal...
i remember confronting wickedly thorny vines in hawaii that climbed hundreds of feet up trees, and thinking on how difficult they'd be to eradicate.
then there's the kuzu 'problem' in the american south, while in japan the root is prized and of high value, so there might be different cultural points of reference to consult...
with lots of time, those resourceful humans will find some way to capitalise difficulty, or have we really met our match here?
the future needs for a shrinking amount of water will make us really creative... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
